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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

Susan Sontag

It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
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Goodness Myself Secret Self Sex
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
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Ideas Poet Writing
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
Shouting has never made me understand anything.
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Anger Myself Understand
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Lying Philosophy Truth
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Artist Need Oneself
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time

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